SOCIO CULTURAL PERCEPTION OF NIGERIANS TOWARD BODY DONATION.
Abstract
Background: The study investigated the sociocultural perception and attitude of anatomist and students towards body donation educational purposes, cross sectional study involve participants that have prior dissection experience. Method: A 5 point likert-type of questionnaire was used to collect data for the study, it is designed with three parts , 1] educational status and gender, 2] spirituality and faith and 3] culture. Results: Data collected were analyzed using frequencies and percentages. Majority of the students (56.67%) are neutral to body donations. 43.3% have either agree or disagree. Among the participants 46.4% are females while 53.4% are males. Spirituality and faith a score mean of the range of 2.5-3.0 is obtained which indicates that they neutral. However in cultural perspective a score mean of 2 is obtained which translated that the participants culturally disagree with it. Conclusion: it was found that the participants are mostly religiously neutral towards body donation but culturally disagree with it.
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